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Killing the two party duopoly requires significant constitutional changes to how elections are held. One way to do that would be ranked choice voting as impleme
by PeterisP 6y ago
Killing the two party duopoly requires significant constitutional changes to how elections are held. One way to do that would be ranked choice voting as implemented in e.g. Maine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked-choice_voting_in_the_United_States#Maine,_2020 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked-choice_voting_in_the_Un...).
However, the key point is that such a system would mainly benefit a potential third party, but any changes to the system need to be agreed upon by the current representatives whose interests and reelection would be hurt by such a change.
- 8note 6y agoTrudeau lost my vote by not going for this in canada, but the problems did hilight that there's a lot of alternatives and choosing a specific replacement is hard. Most agree that FPTP is bad, but nobody agrees on what to replace it with
- Dylan16807 6y agoJust pick a major one, they're all good in similar ways.